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While they never really went anywhere, Karens and their Karening — white women amplifying and weaponizing their privileges when it comes to exerting their purported moral authorities — are apparently making a serious comeback.
The pandemic seemed to bring them out in hordes before the unfortunate phenomenon died down, but now they’re coming back with a major vengeance.
Does how we communicate about the crisis need to shift?
But one constant throughout it all has been how Karens keep getting immortalized on the viral videos in which they and their racism are unwittingly starring.
Frederick Joseph was at a dog park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with his fiancee, Porsche Landon, when the Black couple and their dog happened across an unidentified white woman—we’ll just call her Klan-ish Karen—who they said told them to “stay in your hood” during a spat over the couple’s dog, which they said she had mistaken for some other dog.
Another video that was recently making the rounds on social media and showed a white woman walking her dog threatening an apparent neighbor and fellow dog-walker who was Black. It was unclear what the confrontation in what appeared to be an apartment complex stemmed from, but the white woman was the clear aggressor.
Source: ‘Karens’ Gone Wild: Videos Show Privileged White Women Can’t Stop Trying To Police Black People
